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ThePongCommenter said: Nowadays, the going rate for a premium blade from any brand is anywhere from 130-180 dollars/Euros on average. So why would someone not go for a TBALC/FZD ALC/Viscaria/Ovtcharov/Harimoto ALC which all cost basically the same price as their "competition"? For some reason I...

Most brands have their all wood blades in that price range and very basic low end carbons, if 90-100 was accurate pricing for it then other blades on the market like Darko infinity carbon, Nittaku Acoustic carbon etc would also be in that range. It's not really possible to price that blade in...

It’s possible, we are making some adjustments in that area for 2027, so will have to see how that goes 😇

Appreciate that :) I'm starting to get more involved on the product side now so hopefully I will have some news for everyone soon

It's possible that Asia may continue selling Tronix, there are still more discussions happening around that right now.

Has anyone tried this and golden tango with any comparisons?

There are a number of factors which make blades different, even if they have the same composition. As you know in table tennis even tiny differences in equipment can make it feel very different. The other things to consider are where the wood and fiber is sourced from, the production processes...

Definitely moved, although I don't know if anyone would've noticed it in the heat of the moment honestly. I guess we will never know! :)

You are ahead of the game! :)

We had a blade called the Hybrid which had pbo-c (zlc) and super pbo-c on opposite sides, but it didn't really do so well in the market so it was discontinued. If blades don't take off and get a good pick up it's hard to keep them going because the suppliers require fairly high minimum orders to...

Just checked, I see that's on Germany's website, will get them to fix that thanks for spotting. It's coming back as part of a new blade series in 2027 Q1 hopefully at a nice retail price :)

I was working in a table tennis stadium at the time so I was spending more time on the table. I did a couple of sessions one on one per week with a korean coach, as well as a couple of group practices, one league night per week and 1-2 other practices with training partners. Basically the kind...

Lifting weights. I did crossfit 3 times a week when I was in my early 20s and my training stamina and capacity, including to be able to do much longer footwork movements, greatly improved. This gives you the ability to hugely increase your skills as a training partner, and opens up more doors to...

44mm is 'large ball' table tennis, there are actually around 10,000 competitive players just in large ball competition in Japan - it's very popular. There are also some events in Korea, but outside of those two countries it's not really established.

The Ary-c is the inner carbon, the Ary-x is the non carbon composite weave. These two blades are effectively the two styles of blades that Hugo liked and wanted to sample, so we made upwards of about 40 blade samples across both styles and these are the two that he chose that felt best to him

Sorry for delay. I made a number of changes to the table after last year’s event, yes. There were no complaints from players this year which was very positive compared to last year. Even Sun Yingsha said it was much better haha. The showcourt tables typically don’t retail but the ones that are...

I think Joola Brasil should be there in some capacity 😇

They are planned to launch July 22nd. They are currently out of production and being packaged. The production time is quite long and while Hugo was making up his mind about what to use we had to wait for his decision, so it set the timeline a little later :)

Kiri core

I think it's a brilliant video, definitely has some different perspectives and is interesting for me from the equipment brand marketing side too.